Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700)

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Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700)

Roelens, Jonas

Brill

02/2024

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Inglês

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PART I: Methodological and Discursive Framework



1 Introduction

?1 Sodomy: a Contested Historiography

?2 Sodomy: an Urban Vice? Geographical and Chronological Demarcation

?3 Sources and Methodology

?4 Structure

?5 Terminology



2 Sodomy in Religion, Law, and Popular Culture

?1 Introduction

?2 Religious Views on Sodomy

?3 Legal Views on Sodomy

?4 Cultural Views on Sodomy

?5 Conclusion



PART II: Urban Prosecutions



3 Cycles in the Urban Prosecution Policy

?1 Introduction

?2 Cycles in Early Modern Europe

?3 Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands: Facts and Figures

?4 The Sodomite as Scapegoat

?5 Bruges: Sodom of the North

?6 Bruges and Its Reputation: Some Possible Explanations

?7 Conclusion



4 Social Profiles

?1 Introduction

?2 The Young Sodomite

?3 The Bourgeois Sodomite

?4 The Noble Sodomite

?5 Conclusion



5 Clerical Sodomy

?1 Introduction

?2 Clerical Sodomy in Context

?3 Clerical Sodomites in the Southern Netherlands

?4 Sodomy and the Reformation

?5 The Sodomy Trials of 1578

?6 Tridentine Reforms and Same-Sex Desires

?7 Conclusion



6 Foreign Sodomy

?1 Introduction

?2 Discursive Constructions of Sodomy

?3 Migration in the Southern Netherlands

?4 Migrant Sodomites in the Southern Netherlands

?5 Conclusion



7 Female Sodomy

?1 Introduction

?2 Female Sodomy in Theological and Legal Traditions

?3 Female Sodomy Prosecution in the Southern Netherlands

?4 Female Visibility as an Explanation?

?5 Conclusion



PART III: Urban Discourses



8 Gossip, Defamation, and Sodomy

?1 Introduction

?2 Rumors and Gossip in the Early Modern City

?3 Gossiping about Sodomy

?4 Suspicious Communities or Severe Authorities?

?5 Conclusion



9 Sodomy, Religious Conflict, and Urban Memory

?1 Introduction

?2 Anti-Monasticism and the Ghent Sodomy Trial of 1578

?3 Catholic Rehabilitation in City-Chronicles

?4 Sodomy and Urban Memory

?5 Conclusion



10 Sodomy, Witchcraft, and Public Discourse

?1 Introduction

?2 The Remarkable Romance of Mayken and Magdaleene

?3 Female Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Europe

?4 Female Sodomy and Hermaphrodites

?5 Sodomy and Witchcraft

?6 Conclusion



Conclusion



Bibliography

Appendix Chronological Overview per City

Index
Witchcraft; Reformation; Ghent; Bruges; Scapegoats; Gender; Sexuality; Homosexuality; Sodomy